Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
JOCKO WILLINKRelax. Look around. Make a call.
More Jocko Willink Quotes
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The infamous they.
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If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.
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Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others, and take ownership of everything in their lives, they are compelled to take action to solve their problems.
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Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.
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The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
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Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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The test for a successful brief is simple: Do the team and the supporting elements understand it?
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